Blessed
Blessed
R | 13 December 2004 (USA)
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Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.

Reviews
Matt Kracht

The plot: A couple visit a fertility clinic, not knowing that they also do research into human cloning... and devil worship. And book publishing.This is an outright, brazen ripoff of Rosemary's Baby, though it's also somewhat influenced by other supernatural thrillers, such as The Omen. If you've seen Rosemary's Baby, you really don't need to see this. It's got a pretty decent cast, but that's about the best I can say for it.There were some half-decent ideas here, and I think that they could have worked in the hands of a better director. I'm not saying that they were good ideas, but a skilled exploitation director could have turned this into an enjoyable, derivative waste of time. Instead, we get a somewhat inept attempt to plagiarize one of my favorite horror movies.Despite all its faults, it's still watchable. I can't recommend it, though.

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Big Boss

If it hadn't been the good performance of Heather I would not have completed the film..a total fail,,a friend told me it was not to be seen but, I did not think it was that bad,,Despite the fact it does not have a plot which normally spiritual film must have, the sequence was very confusing not to mention the ending .. A total disaster. Some shots were very unclear and got me totally lost , who's the bad and who is the good, guys what were you thinking... I mean people were going to see and pay money to see the movie not just through away time and money. I think the idea of the film was attractive but certainly the plot was a disaster. But the worst part was the end,,,so what do they want me to know or I just leave without a clue what I was watching for more than 90 min. And by the way evil is not that clever OK

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martys-7

This is one of the worse movies I have seen. The script steals the premises from Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, and other movies that were already riping-off originals, while failing to develop its characters or plot remaining contrived, silly, and disjointed. The direction fails to engage us and the acting is pedestrian at best. I rated it one star because on a couple of occasions the photography and sets of New York and the countryside (apparently Romania) were interesting.What a pity this was David Hemming's last movie. He was a great British character actor who became a 60s icon after portraying Thomas, the young handsome photographer in Blow-Up - Antonioni's atmospheric existential opus. Thomas is dissatisfied with his life despite his professional success, material possessions, and sexy young groupies. When he thinks he has witnessed a murder, the nature of reality become questionable while cannabis, wine, and Swinging London's pointless exuberance only add to the blur. Now, that is a movie with ideas, suspense, excellent cinematography, good direction, good acting; Hemmings incarnated Thomas, who underneath his artistic creativity and elegant bohemian style, full of cool arrogance and wit, is just an isolated and vulnerable man wanting something meaningful in his life.It is very sad indeed to see a bloated Hemmings in Blessed, playing a cartoonish tycoon whose pet project is to clone Satan. I guess he needed the money badly - the only reason to be in this stupid movie. You can save your money and your time by staying away from this boring crap.

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fedor8

From the word "go" this film had "Rosemary's Baby" written all over it. Not only is "Blessed" utterly predictable but it's also amazingly dull and drawn-out. The wafer-thin plot could have easily been told in under 30 minutes. There are so many irrelevant scenes, especially the ones showing how much Graham and her hubby love each other, you'll find yourself very restless and very soon. There is no tension at all. We know she's carrying the anti-Christ. I mean, what else could it be? Mickey Mouse? Roseanne? A pair of underwear? The fact that they're twins – and female - is hardly a huge enough leap in originality (that would have been necessary) to at least semi-save this stinker from total doom.And there are cast problems, too. Obviously Hemmings died during the making so his voice was dubbed – and dubbed very badly. The guy playing Graham's husband is bland and a bad actor; check out the scene in which the two have a fight while he tries to write: there is some truly unconvincing acting on his part. However, it's Andy Serkis and his laughable imitation of an Italian priest that gets "top" honours. Serkis must have been thinking he was still playing Gollum because his over-acting is inane.

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